Portal:Current events/2013 June 18

Current events of June 18, 2013 (2013-06-18) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Several army soldiers are killed following an attack on an armoury in Dondo, Mozambique. (BBC)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
  • A bomb explodes in the Afghan capital Kabul killing three people and wounding six. (BBC)
• Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
  • Twin suicide bombings kill 31 and wound another 60 in al-Qahira, Baghdad. (BBC)
• War in North-West Pakistan:
  • A suicide blast kills 27 and wounds over 30 others at a funeral in Sher Garh, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian Sharia conflict:
  • Seven students and two teachers are killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack on a secondary school in Damaturu. (allAfrica)

Arts and culture

• Goodluck Jonathan announces a N3 billion fund to "intervene" in Nollywood. (allAfrica)

Disasters

• At least 70 people are killed following floods and landslides in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. (BBC)

International relations

• The Malian government announces it has reached at agreement with the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad that allows the Malian Army to return to Kidal in anticipation of upcoming elections. (Al Jazeera), (AP via Washington Post)

Law and crime

• Australian Football League player Stephen Milne of the St Kilda Football Club is charged with four counts of rape dating from 2004 after a Victoria Police review of the initial investigation found that it was "substantially inadequate". (Sydney Morning Herald)
• 98-year-old László Csatáry is charged in Hungary and Slovakia with participation in Nazi war crimes. (BBC)

Politics and government

• A Greek court decrees that ERT can resume transmission, following a truncation of broadcast due to direct order from Antonis Samaras. (BBC)
• As many as 200,000 people march through Brazil's cities, with protestors having scaled the National Congress in Brasilia. (BBC)

Science and Technology

• Huawei unveils the world's slimmest smartphone, the Ascend P6. (BBC)
• Tianhe-2 has been named the world's fastest supercomputer, having been crafted by the National University of Defense Technology. (China Daily)
• U.S. government surveillance programs (including PRISM):
  • Several Federal officials, including National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander, testify at a hearing held by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee over government surveillence programs, whose existence was leaked earlier this month. (CNN)